Squirrel Flower has announced a new album called Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going. The follow-up to 2023’s Tomorrow’s Fire is set for release on August 21 via Polyvinyl. The heartfelt lead single ‘Reelin’ is out today, and you can check it out below.
“The lyrics started as an art piece I made on an overdue Kansas Turnpike toll bill,” Ella Williams said in a statement about ‘Reelin’. “This song is my ode to the push and pull of domesticity and unraveling. Leaving and getting reeled back in, over and over and over and over.”
She added: “This video was born from serendipity and divine timing. There was a huge storm at the time Clay, Jackson and I had planned to shoot in this industrial area I’d been scoping out, and we called the shoot off. At the last minute, I looked at the sky and decided it’d be worth trying. We pulled up to the spot just as the clouds were breaking and a gorgeous double rainbow shot across the sky out of the sparkling city. The other footage is from the Indiana dunes, referencing many performance art videos I’ve made of myself playing accordion with the dunes and factories in the background.”
The new album was recorded live at Door County, WI’s Merry Meadow with a cast of collaborators including co-producers Seth Engel and Jack Henry, and later rerecorded in Asheville with Alex Farrar at his Drop Of Sun studios. It features contributions from Dave Hartley (The War on Drugs), Seth Kauffman (Angel Olsen), Dimitri Giannopolous (Horse Jumper of Love), Sofia Jensen (Free Range), Clay Frankel (Twin Peaks), Andy Krull (Red PK), Book Not Brooke (Babywave), and family members Jameson, Jesse, and Nate Williams.
Revisit our track-by-track interview with Squirrel Flower, breaking down Tomorrow’s Fire, as well as our Artist Spotlight Q&A.
Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going Cover Artwork:
Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going Tracklist:
1. Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going
2. Cleveland
3. Not Me
4. Helicopters
5. Highway Woman
6. Reelin
7. Foot Thick Ice
8. Sick Tooth
9. Fought a Hornet
10. Surfing USA
11. Weightless, Untethered
